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Copyright © 1996-
2010 Bridge World
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This glossary includes definitions of both technical terms and "bridge slang"; the latter is designated as such.
Material set off in brackets [...] forms an illustrative example; it is not part of the definition.
Four numbers separated by equal signs (e.g., 5=4=3=1) denotes an exact suit distribution (in the example: five spades, four hearts, three diamonds and one club).
Four numbers separated by hyphens (e.g., 4-3-3-3) denotes any of the exact distributions conforming to that general pattern (thus 4-3-3-3 represents any hand with one four-card suit and three three-card suits, in other words these four exact distributions: 4=3=3=3, 3=4=3=3, 3=3=4=3, 3=3=3=4).
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- Valet
- jack.
- Vanderbilt Cup
- one of the major American national team championships, a knockout event.
- Variable notrump
- split notrump.
- Venice Cup
- the women's world team championship.
- Verify
- agree the score on a deal, session or match.
- Vice
- See "Vise."
- Victory points
- a scoring system for multiple team contests in which the actual score of each match is converted according to a standard scale.
- Vienna coup
- the cashing of one or more winners to avoid blockage in a squeeze position.
- View
- (slang) decision about what action to take or the layout of a deal.
- Virtual cue-bid
- a bid in a suit that an opponent has suggested artificially. [Example: one notrump -- pass -- two hearts, transfer to spades -- two spades, virtual cue-bid]
- Vise (also Vice)
- a squeeze in which pressure is applied to a holding of two or more cards that rank between cards held by opponents who lack the master card of the suit. [Example: In a certain suit, West holds the guarded ace, South the king-ten, East the queen-jack. If East is squeezed out of one of his honors, the squeeze is a vise.]
- Void
- a holding of zero cards in a suit.
- Voidwood
- Exclusion Blackwood.
- VP
- abbreviation for victory points.
- Vu-graph
- a method of displaying bridge to an audience.
- Vulnerable
- having scored one game.
- Vulnerability
- statement of which side, if any, is vulnerable.
- Vulnerability conditions
- (slang) amber (U.K.) = both sides vulnerable.
- (slang) equal = neither side vulnerable or both sides vulnerable.
- (slang) favorable = nonvulnerable against vulnerable opponents.
- (slang) green (U.K.) = nonvulnerable against vulnerable opponents.
- (slang) horse and horse = both sides vulnerable.
- (slang) red (U.K.) = vulnerable against nonvulnerable opponents.
- (slang) red (U.S.) = vulnerable.
- (slang) red against red (U.S.) = both sides vulnerable.
- (slang) red against white (U.S.) = vulnerable against nonvulnerable opponents.
- (slang) unfavorable = vulnerable against nonvulnerable opponents.
- (slang) white (U.S.) = nonvulnerable.
- (slang) white (U.K.) = neither side vulnerable.
- (slang) white against red (U.S.) = nonvulnerable against vulnerable opponents.
- (slang) white against white (U.S.) = neither side vulnerable.
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